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Eleven essays, examined against the text
Each essay below walks through a core Christian doctrine or historical question, lays out the relevant passages and evidence in their own words, and shows where the doctrine and the text — or the history — pull in different directions.
The Trinity
Every logical model of "three persons, one God" runs into the same problem: Jesus kept pointing back to the Shema.
Read →Original Sin & Atonement
Inherited guilt, transferred punishment, and one man's death covering all — tested against the Hebrew Bible's own rules on justice.
Read →Sonship of Jesus
"Son of God" as a Semitic idiom of honor versus "Son of God" as a claim to literal divine biology.
Read →Did Jesus Actually Die on the Cross?
The Sign of Jonah, the unbroken legs, the flowing blood, and a body that still needed treating for wounds.
Read →Paul vs. Jesus
The Jerusalem church, the Damascus road vision, and the public rebuke that split earliest Christianity in two.
Read →Jesus in India: The Survival Theory
What a body that eats, walks, and still bears open wounds suggests about what actually happened after the cross.
Read →The Missing Years
Eighteen narrated years, gone from all four Gospels. The India/Tibet claim, the Buddhism parallels, and what "the lost sheep of Israel" meant.
Read →Pagan Origins
December 25, Easter's date, Mithraism, and Caesar's Messiah — sorted into what's well-documented and what's overstated.
Read →Trinity in World Religions
The Hindu Trimurti, Egyptian triads, and Neoplatonism — was "three-in-one" ever a distinctively Christian idea?
Read →The Journey to Kashmir
The swoon theory's European roots, the proposed Afghanistan route to find the lost tribes, and what's actually verifiable at Roza Bal — laid out as a theory, not a verdict.
Read →How Orthodoxy Won
Arius, the Gnostics, and centuries of restricted lay access to scripture — how one version of Christianity became the only legal one.
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